Abstract
During the past decade, many investigators of child language have reported that in early grammar verbs often surface without finite morphology in root clauses (for example, Jordens (1990), Weverink (1989) for Dutch). Wexler (1994) refers to this phenomenon as the optional infinitive stage because such examples occur alongside finite sentences. Examples of optional infinitives are given in (1) for Dutch, French, and German:KeywordsObject NominalsMass NounFunctional HeadChild LanguageBare PluralThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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